Great Animated Short

TRAGEDIES like the Japanese-American internment during World War II can be hard to render artistically. So I’m especially surprised that a college student turned out a short animated film as powerful and understated as Yamashita. I met the student, Hayley Foster, recently to discuss her work as an animator and her ambitions to do more projects that look at issues of social justice. (She also spoke about her love of the films of Hayao Miyazaki such as Spirited Away.)

Foster, who now works at Warner Bros., is one to watch. Here is my story for the online magazine of her alma mater, Loyola Marymount University. It includes a link to the film’s trailer.

Scott Timberg

I'm a longtime culture writer and editor based in Los Angeles; my book "CULTURE CRASH: The Killing of the Creative Class" is out January 13, 2015. My stories have appeared in The New York Times, Salon and Los Angeles magazine, and I was an LA Times staff writer for six years. I'm also an enthusiastic if middling jazz and indie-rock guitarist. (Photo by Steve Dewall) Read More…

Culture Crash, the Book

Culture Crash

Here is some information on my book, which Yale University Press publishes in January. (Buy it from Powell's, here.)
Some advance praise:
With coolness and equanimity, Scott Timberg tells what in less-skilled hands could have been an overwrought horror story: the end of culture as we have … [Read More...]